Types of Geography
The branch of geography that deals with the processes and patterns in the natural environment
What is Physical Geography?
The First Urban Hearth
What is Mesopotamia?
The spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes.
What is Human Geography?
The second Urban Hearth.
Nile River Valley
The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective.
What is Medical Geography?
The third Urban Hearth.
Indus River Valley
Maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference, typically latitude and longitude
What is a reference map?
Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region
Five Themes of Geography
The Fifth Urban Hearth
What is Mesoamerica
Meant to illustrate the boundaries and names of cities, states, and countries.
What is a political map?
The study of political processes.
What is Political Geography?
The fourth Urban Hearth.
What is Huang He and Wei
A type of map that uses a different shade of color according to a data variable
What is a chloropleth map?